New construction homes are rare in the Eastside of town, but a few real estate developers have stepped up to the challenge — building architectural, single family small-lot homes. Heyday Partnership, who’ve previously crafted Echo Park’s Dick+Jane project, have graced Glassell Park with 6 new construction LEED gold-certified homes called “Peak Place.”

Why move to the suburbs when living in the urban community makes more sense? Heyday Partnership, the small-lot real estate developers who brought us Eagle Rock’s Rock Row, Echo Park’s Dick+Jane, and Silver Lake’s Buzz Court, have graced NeLA with 6 new construction LEED gold-certified homes. Only 2 small-lot homes remain in the Glassell Park […]

Attention, urban trail enthusiasts in Echo Park: there’s a new path in town. Okay, not really new, but developed. Come Thursday, November 21st, at 11 a.m. CD-13 Councilman Mitch O’Farrell and real estate developer Planet Home Living will unveil the trail marker welcoming the Elysian Heights hillside behind the ARTIS community of 15 small lot […]

Sigh. It’s a sad day in Echo Park real estate. The beloved William Pereira-designed 1960s building at 1111 W. Sunset Blvd., anchoring Victor Heights and Chinatown with sublime views of Downtown, will become market-rate apartment rentals, not condos. Completion of the residential 8-story project is scheduled for January 2014. After amassing calls and inquiries from […]

Small-Lot Homes

New construction homes are rare in the Eastside of town, but a few real estate developers have stepped up to the challenge — building architectural, single family small-lot homes. Heyday Partnership, who’ve previously crafted Echo Park’s Dick+Jane project, have graced Glassell Park with 6 new construction LEED gold-certified homes called “Peak Place.”

Peak Place by Heyday

Why move to the suburbs when living in the urban community makes more sense?

Heyday Partnership, the small-lot real estate developers who brought us Eagle Rock’s Rock Row, Echo Park’s Dick+Jane, and Silver Lake’s Buzz Court, have graced NeLA with 6 new construction LEED gold-certified homes. Only 2 small-lot homes remain in the Glassell Park development: 3001 Peak Place for $635,000 on the southeast corner and 3002 Peak Place for $630,000 on the west-facing middle lot.

You can cruise down Fletcher Drive and miss the marvel that is Peak Place. If you topped a modernist sugar cube with a Quaker offset roof, you’d get this architectural love baby.

At 3 bedrooms, 1.75 baths and approximately 1,900 square feet, each home comes with a 2-car garage, a private garden courtyard from the living room, an extra sitting area on the 2nd floor, 18-foot ceilings in the spacious master bedroom, and skylights for an abundance of natural light.

ARTIS Trail Opening Ceremony

Attention, urban trail enthusiasts in Echo Park: there’s a new path in town. Okay, not really new, but developed.

Come Thursday, November 21st, at 11 a.m. CD-13 Councilman Mitch O’Farrell and real estate developer Planet Home Living will unveil the trail marker welcoming the Elysian Heights hillside behind the ARTIS community of 15 small lot homes.

If you’re curious, find out what views, native plants, and paths can be seen from the hilltop locals know as the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists’ Tract.

1111 Sunset – Apartments, Not Condos?!

The beloved William Pereira-designed 1960s building at 1111 W. Sunset Blvd., anchoring Victor Heights and Chinatown with sublime views of Downtown, will become market-rate apartment rentals, not condos. Completion of the residential 8-story project is scheduled for January 2014.

After amassing calls and inquiries from past Echo Park clients and interested buyers, I was able to speak with Yuval Bar-Zemer, a partner at Linear City Development, LLC. He broke the news with “they are all going to be disappointed.” When asked why the decision was made for apartments, rental income was the best use for the property.

For local natives, the steel-framed, pre-cast concrete building has been home to the Metropolitan Water District, the Holy Hill Church (remember that massive cross?), vacancy of 20 years and — before the 2011 $6.8MM acquisition — a tower of unsightly graffiti tagging.

92 units are sized between 800 to 1,000 square feet, rents demanding approximately $2,000 per month, with it as high as $4-5k for larger units.

For the NYC transplant, I’m sure that’s easy to cough up for Mid-Century commercial design, balconies, and walls of glass.